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',"" Response to 1IJCRAC Questionnaire
For Joint Program Planning For 1969-70
(1) What three (or more) largo developiTscnt3 or tendencies, observed during
ths months since the adoption of the 1963-59 Joint Program Plan have most
greatly affected Jewish community relations for good or for. ill?
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.Answer:
(A) A determination on the part of the USSR and France to see a
settlement imposed on Israel by Big Fowors, together v/ith (a) a deepening
isolationism among many Americans, (b) hostile action by tho New Left,
(c) step-up ir pressure by oil interests, .^rab students, church people who
haveiservea in Arab countries, and other pro-Arab factors.
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(B) Intensifying Black-White and 31ack-Jowish polarization.
(C) jr\n inclination of the federal government to shift its role from
a seance of an effective fight against poverty to such ill-advised proposals
as emphasis on "Black Capitalism."
(D) A deterioration in the traditional American Jewish stand on church-
state separation, affected both by internal Jewish shifts and acceptance of
a vamr* a.oirit of ecuwenisn.
(j_) Attacks upon traditional civil liberties, reflecting reaction
against violence, campus revolts and the activities of Blade militants and
their allies in the New Left.
(2) If you had to identify one area or problem or situation as the one
requiring first priority attention in the coming year, what would, it be?
Answer:
Community relations aspects of .Middle East.
(3) Taking separately each of the developments or tendencies noted under 1,
above: i
(a) What are its favorable and/or unfavorable aspects?
(A) Favorable-. A new resoluteness on the part of the Jewish community;
also distrust of USSR and DeGaulle; also damage done to Arab cause by
Iraqui hangings.
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Unfavorable: World is tired of war anywhere (especially Vietnam) and
pushes for shortcuts to peace through use of power in middle East.
Israeli action at Beirut hurts. '
Arab refugee problem continues to gain in public opinion
battle thanks to misrepresentation.
As more time elapses since 1947 episode, people tend to
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',"" Response to 1IJCRAC Questionnaire
For Joint Program Planning For 1969-70
(1) What three (or more) largo developiTscnt3 or tendencies, observed during
ths months since the adoption of the 1963-59 Joint Program Plan have most
greatly affected Jewish community relations for good or for. ill?
i
.Answer:
(A) A determination on the part of the USSR and France to see a
settlement imposed on Israel by Big Fowors, together v/ith (a) a deepening
isolationism among many Americans, (b) hostile action by tho New Left,
(c) step-up ir pressure by oil interests, .^rab students, church people who
haveiservea in Arab countries, and other pro-Arab factors.
i
(B) Intensifying Black-White and 31ack-Jowish polarization.
(C) jr\n inclination of the federal government to shift its role from
a seance of an effective fight against poverty to such ill-advised proposals
as emphasis on "Black Capitalism."
(D) A deterioration in the traditional American Jewish stand on church-
state separation, affected both by internal Jewish shifts and acceptance of
a vamr* a.oirit of ecuwenisn.
(j_) Attacks upon traditional civil liberties, reflecting reaction
against violence, campus revolts and the activities of Blade militants and
their allies in the New Left.
(2) If you had to identify one area or problem or situation as the one
requiring first priority attention in the coming year, what would, it be?
Answer:
Community relations aspects of .Middle East.
(3) Taking separately each of the developments or tendencies noted under 1,
above: i
(a) What are its favorable and/or unfavorable aspects?
(A) Favorable-. A new resoluteness on the part of the Jewish community;
also distrust of USSR and DeGaulle; also damage done to Arab cause by
Iraqui hangings.
>
Unfavorable: World is tired of war anywhere (especially Vietnam) and
pushes for shortcuts to peace through use of power in middle East.
Israeli action at Beirut hurts. '
Arab refugee problem continues to gain in public opinion
battle thanks to misrepresentation.
As more time elapses since 1947 episode, people tend to
- continued -
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